Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
7.7
During a two-day period before and after the University of Alabama integration crisis, the film uses five camera crews to follow President John F. Kennedy, attorney general Robert F. Kennedy, Alabama governor George Wallace, deputy attorney general Nicholas Katzenbach and the students Vivian Malone and James Hood. As Wallace has promised to personally block the two black students from enrolling in the university, the JFK administration discusses the best way to react to it, without rousing the crowd or making Wallace a martyr for the segregationist cause. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with The Film Foundation in 1999.
Your rating
Your review
Cast
7 people
James Lipscomb
Narrator
John F. Kennedy
Self
Known for
Imagine: John Lennon
George Wallace
Self
Also in
Florida Girls
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
Robert F. Kennedy
Self
Also in
Murderers, Mobsters, & Madmen: Volume 2: Assassination in the 20th Century
The Real Malcolm X
Vivian Malone
Self
James Hood
Self
Nicholas Katzenbach
Self
Robert Drew Director · D. A. Pennebaker Director James Lipscomb Director
United States release October 21, 1963 · Produced in United States · Production Drew Associates, ABC News Studios
Production
ABC News
Production
Drew Associates
Production
ABC News Studios
Production
United States
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Romania · October 21, 1963
Theatrical
United States · October 21, 1963
Theatrical
More from Robert Drew
Other films they directed, best known first.
If you liked Crisis: Behind a Presidential Commitment
Picks that share its genres, themes, cast and crew.
Some details come from TheTVDB.